This paper is concerned with the position of a Roman paterfamilias with respect to his family's property in the period of the Republic. Rights over property are in Roman law strictly dominium and not potestas ; but to understand the role of a family system in a society one must analyse how its property is managed and passed on.
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John Crook (1967) studied this question.
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